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This subtle and nuanced study is clearly Fackenheim’s most important book." —Paul Mendes-Flohr

... magnificent in sweep and in execution of detail." —Franklin H. Littell

In To Mend the World Emil L. Fackenheim points the way to Judaism’s renewal in a world and an age in which all of our notions—about God, humanity, and revelation—have been severely challenged. He tests the resources within Judaism for healing the breach between secularism and revelation after the Holocaust. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, Hegel, Heidegger, and Buber figure prominently in his account.

Author Bio

EMIL L. FACKENHEIM is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1. Rosenzweig on Hegel2. Hegel on Judaism and Spinoza3. Revelation as Shibboleth4. The Basis of Hegel’s Mediating Thought-Activity5. Spinoza dn Hegel on Revelation6. The Core of the Hegelian Mediation7. Hegel’s Mediation between Spinoza and Judaism8. The Failure of Hegel’s Mediation and Its Dialectical Results9. The Move toward the Extremes10. The End of the Constantinianism and the Turn to Dialogical Openness11. Catastrophe12. The Shibboleth of Revelation in Jewish Modernity

1. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, and Heidegger on Death2. Historicity3. Historicity and Transcendence4. The Ontic-Ontological Circle5. 1933: Year of Decision6. The Age of Technology and the Age of Auschwitz7. Unauthentic Thought after the Holocaust8. The Spectrum of Resistance during the Holocaust: An Essay in Description and Definition9. Resistance as an Ontological Categary: An Essay in Critical Analysis10. Rupture, Teshuva, and Tikkun Olam11. Historicity, Hermeneutics, and Tikkun Olam after the Holocaust12. On Philosophy after the Holocaust13. Concerning Post-Holocaust Ch